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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Packerlifer" data-source="post: 237557" data-attributes="member: 1242">Next to the Bears & Vikings and maybe the Lions, the one club Packers' fans most love to see their team beat is the Dallas Cowboys.   The Green Bay-Dallas rivalry isn't divisional or geographic but it is about titles. In a rivalry that stretches back now over 4 decades, the Packers & Cowboys have linked up in 6 championship or playoff games & in 5 of them the winner has gone on to win the Super Bowl.   Those games helped define the identities of both the Packers & Cowboys and have always lurked in the background of regular season meetings, several of which have had playoff implications. Such as last season and this week's meeting.    The rivalry took off, of course, with the 1966 and '67 NFL Championship Games, both won narrowly and dramatically by the Packers. The first was at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, when the Cowboys made their first postseason appearance ever. On New Year's Day 1967 the Packers won a shoot-out 34-27 when the Cowboys advanced to the GB goal line in the last minute only to lose on an end zone interception by Packers safety Tom Brown. On the following New Years Eve in Dec. in Green Bay came the Ice Bowl; which every Packers fan knows the outcome.    Those victories completed the triple world championship run of the Packers under Vince Lombardi and cemented the Packers as the Team of the Decade for the '60's and a team for the ages in pro football history.   The Cowboys were left in agony by those defeats, since they considered themselves the better team. They were labeled "chokers" and "next year's champions." But Dallas did go on to establish their own reign of glory in the 1970's on. They became "America's Team;" a consistently winning, perenniel playoff team that would add up 8 Super Bowl appearances and 5 wins over the next 25 years.   And during that stretch they would get the chance to dig back at the Pack for those 2 classic championship defeats. In 1982,1993, 1994 & 1995 the Packers would reach the playoffs only to be stopped short of the Super Bowl by the Dallas Cowboys.   That title showdown background carried over into almost every Packers-Cowboys game played in regular seasons as well.     In 1968 as the Packers' dynasty was unraveling and Dallas was undefeated at midseason, Green Bay went to Dallas for a Monday night game; even though this was before MNF. The 6-0 Cowboys were looking like the next NFL champion and heavily favored over the 2-3-1 Packers. But after falling behind 10-0 the Pack came back and rolled to a 28-17 win. Even though they went 12-2 and reached the playoffs, Dallas was never quite the same after that game and lost to underdog Cleveland in a conference playoff.    In 1972 the Cowboys were Super Bowl champions for the first time when they came to Wisconsin to meet an upstart young Packers team in the third game of the season. Though Dallas was favored, the Packers won 16-13 and went on to a 10-4 season and won the Central Division for the first time since '67.    In 1975 the winless Packers visited the undefeated Cowboys and picked up their first win under coach Bart Starr 19-17.    In 1978 the Packers appeared on a run to the NFC Central title with a 7-2 record but the Cowboys came in and smashed them 42-14. Green Bay staggered home after that to only an 8-7-1 finish and missed the playoffs.    Then there was the Thanksgiving Day game in 1994 when the Cowboys beat the Packers 42-31 with third string qb Jason Garrett running their offense. And the 1996 MNF meeting when Green Bay kept Dallas out of the end zone all night but lost on 7 field goals 21-6. It was one of only 3 losses by the Packers as they supplanted the Cowboys as Super Bowl champs that season but the loss and Dallas' upset loss to Carolina which denied the Pack a chance at them at Lambeau in the NFC Championship took a little edge off the full satisfaction of that season.   In 1997 the Packers demonstrated how that championship might have gone when they finally got the hated Cowpokes in Green Bay and won 45-17. Dallas dropped from the playoffs after that game that season and the next.   But in '99 they were back to vex the Packers: They beat Green Bay 27-13 and edged the Packers at the finish line for a wild card playoff berth.    Now, here we are again with the two distant cities of Green Bay & Dallas eyeing each other for a playoff advantage. Last season when they met at Dallas as 10-1 teams it was for home field advantage. As 2-0 teams this week it isn't that clear yet but both will know the potential implications of the result down the line.   This is a heckuva rivalry, folks and should be a helluva game.</blockquote>

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